Burkhard Rost
(CUBIC, Columbia Univ, New York / LION, Heidelberg WWW, rost@columbia.edu )
pioneered the PredictProtein service; wrote the PHD prediction programs: PHDsec, PHDacc, PHDhtm, and PHDtopology; developed the prediction-based threading method PHDthreader/TOPITS; programmed, and proposed the scores compiled by EvalSec; hacked some of the PredictProtein scripts; is helping to keep the service up and running, and is responsible for the documentation.

Volker Eyrich
(Chemistry Dept, Columbia Univ, New York, volker@chem.columbia.edu )
wrote the scripts for the META server which allows you to access a large variety of selected servers world-wide from a single-page interface.

Dmitry Rykunov
(Inst for protein research (RAS), Pushchino, Russa,
rykunov@antares.protres.ru
)
maintains the mirror in first Eastern European mirror in Russia
(mirror). Although Dmitry was the twelfth to install a mirror, he was the first who unearthed a bunch of broken links on the PP web pages!

Phil Bourne
(San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA,
bourne@sdsc.edu
)
maintains the first US mirror with a fast connection in San Diego
(mirror).

Piero Fariselli (farisel@kaiser.alma.unibo.it) and Rita Casadio
(Univ of Bologna, Italy) wrote the program CYSPRED that predicts the disulfide-bonding state of cysteine residues.

Patrice Gouet (gouet@ipbs.fr)
(IPBS, WWW, ) wrote the program ESPript that converts alignments into PostScript, GIF, and TIFF formatted images.
Emmanuel Courcelle (manu@ipbs.fr) installed (and maintains) the local mirror of ESPript in New York.

Comment: if you find the following list too long, please note that PredictProtein combines a large number of independent tools. Where other servers adopt the philosophy 'one mail/WWW interface per tool' (
for a few examples), PP attempts to provide one single interface to many tools. Many of the tools are at the forefront of bio-informatics (academics may 'pay' these services by quoting).
Links to more literature related to PP.

Your sequence data is deposited in files to which only the PP administrator (BR) has read access. No one else inside or outside of CUBIC (Columbia University BioInformatics Centre) can read your data, except our system administrators who are held to the highest standards of confidentiality. Occasionally, the PP administrator may look at the data in order to assess the performance of the server.